Well what a difference a day can make! Today was a beautiful bike ride with minimal wind, temps below 80 and mostly decent road surfaces. We were fortunate to experience light traffic, too, unlike yesterday. 49.2 miles, 2579’ We started out at the house by first fixing Tom’s flat rear tire which had been low yesterday. From Globe (another big south central AZ copper mining town), we turned northwest on Hwy 188 and cycled up and over a ridge and then down a huge beautiful hill into Tonto Basin with Tonto Creek (and many others) and the Salt River filling Theodore Roosevelt Lake created by a dam on the Salt River. The reservoir was very low. Saguaros, prickly pear and cholla were abundant and many were starting to bloom.
(1911 – originally world’s tallest masonry dam) controlled flooding in Phoenix valley
TransAm Cycle 3.0 